I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
ALAN CHAMBERSThrough biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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t’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.
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There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.
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For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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The reason we have distanced ourselves from it is because some of the things that they employ and some of the messages that I’ve heard from reparative therapists with regards to what someone can expect once they get through that type of therapy.
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But it doesn’t say anywhere in that passage that the people didn’t still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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